Lord of Nine Stars

A week passed quickly. On the 29th day of the New Year, Rong Taotao and Gao Lingwei, led by Yang Chunxi, and a group of civilians from Songjiang Soul City who had returned home, formed a team of fifty people and marched towards Songbai Town. .

In a normal society, there will be trains one after another, but in this snow-covered land, there are "carriages" one after another.

Although it is located south of a wall, there are still dangers in the wilderness, so people who want to return to Songbai Town from Songjiang Soul City still need to be escorted by soul warriors.

Rong Taotao controlled Xue Ye Jing and walked side by side with Gao Lingwei. From time to time, he looked at the carriages behind him. He had a very strange feeling in his heart and said with a smile: "It feels like we are like ancient guards, with soldiers riding horses and civil servants sitting in carriages." inside?"

Gao Lingwei said "hmm" softly, then closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

On Gao Lingwei's shoulder, the edelweiss cat was very capable of imitating. It imitated its master, closed its big blue eyes, raised its head, and took a deep breath.

At the same time, the Yunyun dog on Rong Taotao's head also raised its head and inhaled.

The weather is very good today, which is very rare. Even Yunyun Dog is willing to stay outside.

The wind is very light and the winter sun is very warm at noon, which is very suitable for traveling.

She whispered: "I have spent New Year's Eve in Songbai Town three times. I know that a large number of people rush back to Songbai Town every year to celebrate the New Year. Today is my first escort mission. Unexpectedly, the entire Songjiang Soul City will be hollowed out. .”

Starting from the 29th of the New Year, "carriages" drove away batch after batch of civilians rushing back to Songbai Town for reunion.

Rong Taotao nodded secretly. When he thought of the grand celebration Gao Lingwei described to him, he felt a pity because only two people in the soul class came out.

Si Huanian is indeed the god of the martial arts arena, with authority that ordinary people cannot imagine.

But while enjoying the privileges, Sihuanian was also firmly "crucified" in the martial arts hall. Many college students who trained hard did not return home, and Sihuanian still had to provide them with benefits to accelerate their practice, which also led to The other youths from the soul class stayed at the martial arts arena.

But if they spend the holidays together, the atmosphere should be very good.

As everyone headed south, they also felt that it was getting warmer and warmer.

Although there was only a short distance of fifty kilometers, the temperature rose step by step until everyone arrived at Songbai Town. Rong Taotao had a feeling that it might be at least 3 to 4 degrees higher than Songjiang Soul City!

"oh!!!"

"Woohoo~ We're home!"

More than two hours later, bursts of cheers rang out.

Rong Taotao was still practicing soul skills silently on horseback. Hearing such excited cheers, he couldn't help but turn around and saw people's heads protruding from the doors and windows on the carriages, looking at Cheering at the distant checkpoint.

Rong Taotao turned his head and looked far away, his ears filled with the excited sounds of people.

"Second uncle, let's go eat at home. Haha, I'm thinking that you are also an old bachelor. You are living with your family these days. Can we celebrate the holidays together?"

"Little bastard, why are you burying your uncle here? What does it mean to be a bachelor? I have made money for a year, and this time I come back to marry you a second aunt!"

"Pfft cough cough"

"Ha ha ha ha!!"

Amid the bursts of laughter, Rong Taotao couldn't help but smile. In his sight, there was a checkpoint in the middle of the distant road. It was not an exaggeration to call it a small camp.

The road is lined with dense green pines and cypresses, and the evergreen trees are still hung with frost and snow on their branches, as if to welcome travelers returning home.

"Tsk, tsk." Rong Taotao couldn't help but marveled. After walking for more than 50 kilometers, the trees in the wild can be said to be all over the mountains and plains.

But using the checkpoint as the boundary, looking to the south, the dense green pines and cypresses are endless and extremely lush, with a little snow on the branches, forming a perfect picture.

In the camp across the middle of the road, several officers stepped forward and made a stop gesture.

Carriages passed one after another, and Rong Taotao was quite curious. The procedures for entering the city were simply more complicated than entering the customs. There were inquiries, security checks, and stamps.

With a solitary student ID card, Rong Taotao got in smoothly.

Yang Chunxi suddenly said: "We've arrived. You two don't have to follow me anymore. Let's go to the city for a walk. I have to help the school teachers settle these students."

Many Songjiang Hunwu students also come here to celebrate the New Year, and the school also provides them with dormitories. It seems that Yang Chunxi is very busy.

"Eh?" Rong Taotao blinked and looked at Yang Chunxi.

"Go and play." Beside him, Yang Chunxi said with a smile, "Keep the phone open."

"Drive!" Gao Lingwei shouted softly, clamped the horse's belly with her legs, and rushed out first, with her dark pony tail flying behind her head. She turned her head and glanced at Rong Taotao.

"Here we come~" Rong Taotao hurriedly rode forward and chased after him. He took out his cell phone from his pocket and finally changed the silent cell phone to ring mode.

Wow, so comfortable~

Rong Taotao never thought that the moment he got rid of Si Huanian's shadow would be so comfortable!

It turns out that cell phones can ring too!

It's so amazing, Rong Taotao almost forgot that his mobile phone has this function!

"Where are we going?" Rong Taotao shouted.

"Woof!" That head naturally curled up, and the dog barked in the same way.

Gao Lingwei turned to look at Rong Taotao and said, "Shall I take you to my alma mater first? Didn't you never go to high school? You want to visit?"

Rong Taotao: "."

It’s so heartbreaking!

Surrounded by dense pines and cypresses on both sides of the road, Gao Lingwei and Rong Taotao rode forward one after the other.

Just 5 minutes later, Rong Taotao finally entered the town, his mouth gradually opened into an "O" shape.

As soon as he entered the first street of the town, Rong Taotao saw a scene of crowds of people.

He hadn't seen so many people in a long time.

Such a rich atmosphere of life is completely different from the atmosphere on a university campus.

"Keep to the right." The white horse under Gao Lingwei's crotch slowed down, moved along the right side of the road, and merged into the crowd of people on horseback.

Due to the characteristics of snowy night terrors, such as being gentle and humane, stable and knowing the way, coupled with the special weather and environment, snowy night terrors have already become the main means of transportation in Songbai Town.

Here, the horse stables that rent horses have always been very prosperous. After all, on snowy nights, snowy night terrors are a rigid need for civilians to travel.

Rong Taotao looked around. When he first entered the town, he encountered such a large market and it was bustling with people. He did not expect it.

Although this is considered a commercial street, the overall buildings in Songbai Town are not high. Most of them are only 1 to 2 floors. Many buildings are also brick-shaped, giving them an antique charm.

"Hey, roasted sweet potatoes." Rong Taotao suddenly said.

Gao Lingwei turned around and saw an old woman sitting next to a roasted sweet potato stove in front of a store selling frozen goods. There were several steaming sweet potatoes on the stove.

Gao Lingwei glanced at Rong Taotao with a smile, then turned right onto the sidewalk and dismounted next to a tree.

Another advantage of Snow Night Terror is that there is no need to "lock the car" or scan the code to return the car. There is a public area where Snow Night Terror is parked next to the trees on the sidewalk.

Gao Lingwei watched Rong Taotao turn over and dismount beside her, then put a hand on his shoulder, turned around, faced Xue Yejing, and said: "Look at this face again, don't let anyone else ride you away for a while. "

With that said, Gao Lingwei gently stroked Xue Ye's frightened horse's face, and led the confused Rong Taotao to the roasted sweet potato stall.

There are so many details of life that he needs to learn and integrate into, especially the overall structural style of Songbai Town, which really makes Rong Taotao feel like he has returned to the ancient world.

Fortunately, the old lady selling roasted sweet potatoes accepted payment by scanning the QR code on her mobile phone, which brought Rong Taotao back to reality.

The two of them each held a hot roasted sweet potato, rode on the snowy night terror, and followed the crowd while eating.

Turning north at the first intersection, it suddenly became clear. Without the crowds of people in the market, the two of them moved much faster.

The two walked north for five streets, almost reaching the northern edge of Songbai Town. Gao Lingwei fed the velvet cat in her arms before stopping in front of a huge school gate.

Songbai Town Hunwu High School.

Several large gilded characters are posted vertically on an ancient tree in the sky, standing on the right side of the school gate.

The doorman's small window was suddenly opened, and an old man waved his hand with a smile: "Girl, you're back!"

"Ah, hello." Gao Lingwei was confused, but she thought the guard looked familiar. As a popular figure in Songbai Hunwu High School, everyone in the school knew Gao Lingwei, but Gao Lingwei didn't know everyone.

"I saw that you were admitted to Songjiang Hunwu. Your photo is still hanging on the outstanding student photo wall. You are my granddaughter's role model, haha."

Gao Lingwei smiled and nodded slightly.

"Meow~" The edelweiss mashed the roasted sweet potato into its mouth, licked its small mouth with its pink tongue, tilted its head curiously, and looked at the doorman.

"Many students are back, but high school students have a holiday tonight. The school is currently not allowed to visit. You can come back tomorrow." After the polite introduction, the guard finally stated the purpose.

Presumably, Gao Lingwei had a very high reputation and authority here, and the guard had a very good attitude and did not directly drive her away coldly.

"Yeah." Hearing this, Gao Lingwei's face inevitably looked a little disappointed.

The guard thought for a moment, then pointed to the north: "You are more familiar with that place than I am."

"Well, yes!" Gao Lingwei's eyes suddenly lit up and she said, "Thank you."

"Haha." The doorman waved his hand and closed the small window.

Gao Lingwei turned the horse's head and continued north: "Let's go."

Rong Taotao followed curiously: "Where are you going?"

"There is a small park on the hill to the north. There is a monument on the park. There are 303 steps in total from bottom to top. In high school, we always jumped frog there." Gao Lingwei's eyes were full of memories and she smiled, "It's very high there. , overlooking the entire high school campus.”

The two of them walked all the way to Beishan, and in a very quiet small park, they also saw the steps that seemed to go straight to the sky.

The 303 steps are actually not very high, but the hillside is very steep, and surrounded by green pines and cypresses, the top of the monument vaguely emerges among the trees, and it really seems to be standing in the sky.

In winter, the sun sets very early in the north. It's only around four o'clock at this time, and it is already setting in the west. The orange-red sunlight sets off the woods, and it looks like the setting sun, which is very beautiful.

"Let's go." Gao Lingwei took back the snowy night terror, "Just put your snowy night terror here."

As she spoke, she took off Yunyun Dog from Rong Taotao's head, and gently wiped Yunyun Dog's mouth with one hand, which was covered with crumbs of roasted sweet potatoes.

"Hmm~" Yunyun Dog licked Gao Lingwei's finger that was reaching towards his mouth, thinking it had something delicious to eat.

On the way up the mountain, Rong Taotao also saw young people walking down the steps. It seemed that they all came here to overlook their alma mater.

After passing two female students, Rong Taotao smiled as he climbed the steps: "You are a celebrity here. These young people looked very surprised when they saw you and murmured."

Gao Lingwei did not respond, but said: "This monument commemorates a principal of Songbai Hunwu High School named Xiao Li.

In the 1980s, he was the one who established Songbai Hunwu High School despite all the opposition and overcoming many difficulties, and moved the training location of the high school students in the Snow Realm more than 30 kilometers to the north.

It was also from then on that the overall level of the high school students in the Northern Snow Realm slowly caught up, and the bustling Pine and Cypress Town you see today was born.

Later, Principal Xiao became ill due to overwork and died in the school hospital at the age of 73.

In order to commemorate him, the school built a small park in the mountains behind the school and also erected a monument. "

Rong Taotao nodded, said no more, and silently followed Gao Lingwei up the steps.

Climbing up the 303 steps step by step, Rong Taotao also saw two simple characters engraved on the tall monument: HERO.

There are only two large characters on the tall tower-shaped monument, with no annotations, names, or sculptures.

Gao Lingwei stood in front of the monument and admired it for a long time, then turned around, came to the stone fence, and looked at her alma mater.

At the foot of the mountain, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Songbai Hunwu High School, including the teaching building, canteen, dormitory building, martial arts field, and the children training hard under the sunset.

These are indeed her youth.

Rong Taotao held Yunyun Dog in his arms and looked around. When he walked to the side of the monument, he saw a tall figure standing in the pine trees in the north.

Under the setting sun, a patch of orange-red color saturates the pine and cypress forest.

But that woman was wearing a red cloak, like a wedding dress.

The long black hair was flying gently in the breeze, leaving Rong Taotao with a back figure.

"This" Rong Taotao blinked stupidly.

In the silence, he carefully walked a few steps to the right. The stone bricks under his feet turned into snow. When he entered the edge of the woods, he saw the side face of the woman.

Her profile was beautiful, but her expression was melancholy.

The bloodless palms of her hands, which were pale from the cold, were pressed against the trees beside her. Her eyes were empty and she was looking silently at the north.

Her sight seemed to be able to see through the not-so-dense pine trees and the wanderers returning home from the north.

Rong Taotao stared at this scene in a daze, and suddenly for a moment, he understood what "seeing through the eyes" meant.

After an unknown amount of time, Gao Lingwei walked up to the dull-looking Rong Taotao. Following Rong Taotao's line of sight, she curiously looked toward the edge of the woods, and then her face froze.

The memory was opened in an instant. If he hadn't seen this woman here, Gao Lingwei would have forgotten her existence.

Teacher Chen is a practical class teacher at Songbai Hunwu High School. She only became a high school teacher a few years ago, and she is also a very special existence here.

Because her mental state was not very good, she rarely took care of students and rarely attended classes. Instead, she always stopped here and waited all day.

Every time Gao Lingwei comes here, she can always be seen standing by the forest.

In such a quiet environment, Rong Taotao's cell phone ringtone suddenly rang, even a little harsh.

"The heavy snow closes the door and then sends the God of Wealth away. The fire cannot burn the one you love."

This Northeastern folk song is a special ringtone set by Rong Taotao for Yang Chunxi. He set it specially when he first met his sister-in-law half a year ago.

Rong Taotao hurriedly flipped through his phone for his phone, and the ringtone kept ringing.

From the side, Gao Lingwei's voice suddenly came: "Hello, Chen Chenjiao."

For a moment, Rong Taotao's body froze, and he felt that the hairs all over his body were standing on end, as if he was being stared at by someone.

Rong Taotao didn't care much and hurriedly took out his mobile phone, but he heard the cold voice of the woman in red in the distance: "Don't answer."

"Gudu." Rong Taotao's Adam's apple squirmed and he raised his head cautiously, only to see the woman's eyes reddened beside the pine trees in the distance. She looked at Rong Taotao quietly. To be precise, she looked at Rong Taotao just now. Take out the cell phone.

The bell also rang tenaciously and was extremely clear.

"The setting sun in Saibei is her red makeup, and the mountains of pines and cypresses are her bridesmaids."

"Ha." The woman sighed deeply, a layer of mist rose in her eyes, and a smile appeared on her face. It was very forced and frustrating, "He said that he would come back and asked me to wait for him here. "

"The sound of gongs and drums marks the first month of the new year, the sound of firecrackers turns the ground red, and every household lights up lanterns."

Gao Lingwei took a step forward, stood in front of Rong Taotao, and said, "Take it."

Rong Taotao immediately answered the phone, without putting it to his ear, but he heard Yang Chunxi's faint voice: "Taotao, where are you? It's time to come back, I'm here."

The woman raised her head and wiped her red eyes. The extremely forced smile on her face with faint tear stains was heartbreaking to watch.

And she just turned around silently, pressed one hand on the cold bark, looked to the north again, and said no more.

"Let's go." Gao Lingwei held Rong Taotao's wrist and led him back step by step.

Gao Lingwei was very wary, but the woman in red stood in the sunset, beside the pines and cypresses, motionless, waiting quietly.

It wasn't until the two of them retreated to the monument, blocking the red figure, that Gao Lingwei breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly turned around and walked down the steps with Rong Taotao.

"This is the first time I've heard her speak in three years."

"Is she waiting for her family?"

"You've seen it."

"Um?"

"Xiao Ziru."

Third update, 12, 17, 20.

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